Quotes by : Edith Hamilton

Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

A man without fear cannot be a slave.

The author determines that the bitterest struggles are for one side of the truth to the suppression of....

It may seem odd to say that the men who made the myths disliked the irrational and had a love for facts;....

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

Our way would seem quite familiar to the Romans, more by far than the Greek way. Socrates in the Symposium,....

The mind knows only what lies near the heart.

When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.